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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-656 In Re Rayon Payne 2025-12-05 Denied Response Waived due-process immigration-law judicial-review jurisdictional-conflict procedural-default supervisory-authority 1. Whether this Court should exercise its supervisory authority under 28 U.S.C. §165 1(a) to resolve a structural conflict created when two federal…
25-5978 Edgard Velasquez v. United States District Court for the Central District of California, Los Angeles Ninth Circuit 2025-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review federal-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment grand-jury-transcripts judicial-discretion supervisory-authority Does the district court's clearly erroneous denial of Petitioner's motion for grand jury transcripts pursuant Fed. R. Crim. P. 6 and the Fifth Amendme…
24-1227 Frank L. Slaughter, Jr. v. Board of Professional Responsibility of the Supreme Court of Tennessee Tennessee 2025-06-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) attorney-licensure disciplinary-proceedings due-process ethical-rules fourteenth-amendment supervisory-authority Whether Tennessee Supreme Court Rule 9 violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment by conferring plenary power on a single decision-ma…
24-5524 Kenneth W. Blair v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review confidential-informant judicial-discretion motion-to-compel standard-of-review supervisory-authority Whether the Eighth Circuit's finding that the district court did not abuse its discretion in overruling Blair's motion to compel the disclosure of a c…
23-1359 Fucich Contracting, Incorporated, et al. v. Shread-Kuyrkendall and Associates, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-07-01 Denied Response Waived appellate-review diversity-jurisdiction federal-courts judicial-federalism legal-reasoning reasoned-opinion state-law supervisory-authority Should a federal court of appeals sitting in diversity be required to issue a reasoned opinion in disposing of a case when that case involves signific…
22-7754 Maurice Hunt v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights commerce-clause commercial-sex-acts congressional-authority constitutional-review criminal-liability due-process harmless-error sex-acts statutory-interpretation supervisory-authority supervisory-power Whether Congress Lacked Congressional Authority Under The Commerce Clause
22-7058 Michael S. Helmstetter v. David Herzog, Trustee, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-03-21 Denied Relisted (2)IFP bankruptcy-debtor bankruptcy-estate bankruptcy-standing court-valuation debtor-rights due-process settlement-challenge standing supervisory-authority valuation Did lower courts err in ruling that a bankruptcy debtor lacked standing to object to settlement of claims against third parties despite evidence of a …
22-590 Sergio Verdu v. Trustees of Princeton University, et al. Third Circuit 2022-12-27 Denied Response Waived federal-courts rule-of-law supervisory-authority third-circuit title-ix title-vii whether-courts-should-issue-not-precedential-opinions
22-6363 Dawud Canaan Sturrup Gabriel v. Trans Am Trucking Company Tenth Circuit 2022-12-21 Denied IFP certiorari circuit-court civil-procedure due-process federal-law judicial-proceedings standing supervisory-authority supreme-court-review Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit departed from the accepted course of judicial proceedings
22-5946 Dawud Canaan Sturrup Gabriel v. Windy Hill Foliage Incorporated Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-31 Denied IFP ada americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-court civil-rights due-process eeoc eeoc-discrimination judicial-proceedings judicial-review right-to-sue standing supervisory-authority Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings
20-7553 Len Davis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied IFP capital-case certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-review evidentiary-hearing federal-appellate-review habeas-corpus supervisory-authority threshold-inquiry Whether this Court should grant certiorari and exercise its supervisory authority to bring uniformity to the circuit courts' COA practice so as to avo…
20-847 Billie Renee Frances Lillian Powers v. The Bank of New York Mellon, fka Bank of New York, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-12-23 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-fairness ninth-circuit pro-se pro-se-litigation summary-affirmance supervisory-authority Whether the pro se petitioner was denied due process and equal protection by the circuit court's treatment of informal briefs
20-6561 Jesus N. Rodriguez v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-08 Denied IFP civil-procedure constitutional-law district-court due-process incorporated-grounds judicial-discretion pleading-defect procedural-error rule-violation standing statutory-interpretation supervisory-authority Whether the district court invited error resulting in a fundamental pleading defect
19-8665 Anthony Jackson v. Supreme Court of Illinois Illinois 2020-06-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP case-continuance constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure due-process ends-of-justice judicial-supervisory-authority speedy-trial speedy-trial-rights supervisory-authority trial-tolling unconstitutional void-ab-initio Whether a court's supervisory authority empowers the court to toll the speedy-trial terms in cases not before the court
19-1129 Charles T. Fote v. Andrei Iancu, Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2020-03-16 Denied Response Waived appellate-procedure certiorari-petition civil-procedure court-of-appeals due-process judicial-opinion judicial-reasoning judicial-review legal-reasoning rehearing supervisory-authority written-opinion Whether a court of appeals must provide an opinion explaining its reasoning in an appeal that involves a complex and unsettled area of the law and in …
19-7561 Ramiro D. Ramirez, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP application-note-3(c) application-note-3c court-of-appeals criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-sentencing criminal-sentencing district-court federal-sentencing-guidelines mitigating-role mitigating-role-adjustment paid-tasks proprietary-interest sentencing-guidelines supervisory-authority united-states-sentencing-guidelines ussg-3b1.2 Whether the Court of Appeals inappropriately affirmed the district court's denial of a mitigating role adjustment
19-7506 David Andrew Hunt, Lusion Yoshua Rice, and Dendrick Demond Hall v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-01-30 Denied Relisted (5)IFP 28-usc-2244 binding-precedent due-process ex-parte federal-courts supervisory-authority Whether Alabama robbery categorically requires 'as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person of anothe…
18-6251 Lonnie James Pebley v. Colorado Colorado 2018-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process mistrial oregon-v-kennedy prosecutorial-misconduct reprosecution supervisory-authority trial-court Whether the federal double jeopardy protection barring reprosecution as a result of prosecutorial misconduct intended to provoke a mistrial was not sh…
18-6099 In Re Terry Margheim 2018-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-2255 due-process judicial-administration judicial-integrity judicial-process stare-decisis supervisory-authority When the courts below violate due process by denying a meaningful opportunity to be heard in a 28 U.S.C. § 2255 proceeding, will the United States Sup…
18-6055 Willie Triplett, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2018-09-20 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel rule-60(b)(6) rule-60b6 state-created-impediment supervisory-authority Whether Lower Court's denial of Motion for Reconsideration pursuant to Rule 60(b)(6) based on intervening law was an abuse of discretion
18-5578 Antonio U. Akel v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appeal appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process exceptional-injustice federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure ineffective-assistance judicial-error right-to-counsel sixth-amendment standing supervisory-authority Whether the undisputed and clear violation of a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to the assistance of counsel on direct appeal results in an exceptio…
18-5409 In Re Daniel Riley 2018-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights drug-reimbursement due-process erisa-preemption habeas-corpus judicial-discretion pharmacy-benefit-managers rate-regulation sentencing state-regulation statutory-interpretation supervisory-authority supreme-court-precedent time-limitation time-limits Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in holding that A Whether the First Circuit Court of Appeals has abused its discretion by failing to decide petitioner's application for permission to file a second or …
18-5030 Shawn Williams v. Jeff Norman, Warden Eighth Circuit 2018-06-28 Dismissed IFP congress constitutional-rule due-process evidence habeas-corpus reasonable-doubt supervisory-authority Whether Boukin v. Alabama, 395 U.S. 238 (1969), is a Constitutional Rule of Court, mandated on the District Court or merely the exercise of its superv…